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TORONTO — A new forecast suggests fears of a housing bubble and a price collapse are misplaced and predicts rising population and land supply restrictions will result in Toronto house prices doubling over the next 25 years.
The forecast by Central 1 Credit Union says higher mortgage rates in the next three years will restrain housing sales in Ontario as a whole, but not cause a market correction.
Ontario home prices will rise about 4% a year through 2016, down from a decade-long annual average of about 6%.

MUMBAI | NEW DELHI: A sharp decline in property price appreciation in top Indian cities has pushed investors out of the housing market in India, which has turned into an end users' paradise, thanks to stagnating prices and, in some cases, deeply discounted distress sales. Investors say they are unable to exit multiple investments made over the last few years even at a loss, accentuating the pain for them.

David Madani, the economist known for his prediction of a 25 per cent correction in Canadian house prices, has a new forecast for the Toronto and Vancouver markets.
His forecast from February 2011 has yet to materialize but that didn’t stop Madani, of Capital Economics, from forecasting a price correction of as much as 30 per cent in Canada’s two most expensive cities.

The fourth (or is it fifth?) dead cat bounce in the US housing market is rapidly fading, as we just confirmed by the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index data for the month of June, which saw a Y/Y increase in home prices of just 8.07%, below the 8.3% expected, and the slowest increase since December 2012.

With a 10.9% increase from March 2012 to this March, home prices continued their upward trajectory as measured by the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. The index has been rising for some time, but the pace of the increase is now the highest since the “bubble” days of April 2006. Some of that is due to an investment push by financial firms, as we noted last month in an article on February’s 9.3% year-over-year gain. The spending certainly seems to be widespread, with a dozen U.S. cities registering double-digit year-over-year gains.

With a 10.9% increase from March 2012 to this March, home prices continued their upward trajectory as measured by the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. The index has been rising for some time, but the pace of the increase is now the highest since the “bubble” days of April 2006. Some of that is due to an investment push by financial firms, as we noted last month in an article on February’s 9.3% year-over-year gain. The spending certainly seems to be widespread, with a dozen U.S. cities registering double-digit year-over-year gains.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose in September from a year earlier at the fastest pace in 13 months as a lack of houses for sale has forced buyers to bid up available properties.The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released Tuesday, increased 5.5 percent in September compared with a year ago, the largest annual gain since August 2014.